The book is me, where it jumps from queer to strange with a
ragged, ruined range in between, where the Rs have been
ripped from their roost like
me, the me who must go, who must fly the nest, me, the me
from R to R,
ripped from my roots, my refuge, my refuse I cannot run from
and will not run to.
R to R like the reticent roar I am, I am that ragged,
ruined, range removed from
right where it should be, roaming the rooms at the rear of
the wrong place,
roaming a roost that is not my refuge, but roundabout
ramblings.
I am not the robber, I am the robbed, reeling from the
rooted requirement
that I do not rob, but reap, reap before the reaper, wrapped
in his raven robe,
reaps me, wrapped in my wrinkled, ratted raiment. But the
reaper robs, too,
round and round, reaps robbers and rulers, readily
relinquishing rues to the regulars who remain.
But I am not a robber and I am not a reaper and I am not a
regular. I will relinquish my rues
to the ethereal rift and realize the right in the light and the
dark in the night,
if right is really there in that ream of spritely spite: red
regurgitations, roiling and riled,
ripped from the vile, as the heads roll ruby clean above the
rasping of rampant rats.
You can rip the roots and rest them in repose, but they
remain,
and the ragged, ruined range remains. From R to R you can rend
and spur it out,
but it is still there, retching, but resplendent, for all
your rites of normality.
The womb from which it is rutted, rounded, and ringed
remains,
and from that womb will birth again.
Are you ready?
Wow! I love the alliteration in this, and the rhythm is great too. I especially like how you shift to the womb at the end-- that feels like a slant rhyme to me, and it's a great touch.
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